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S vs Broil - What's the difference?

s | broil |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb broil is

to cook by direct, radiant heat or broil can be to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.

As a noun broil is

food prepared by broiling or broil can be (archaic) a brawl; a rowdy disturbance.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    broil

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cook by direct, radiant heat.
  • To expose to great heat.
  • To be exposed to great heat.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Food prepared by broiling.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil
  • (obsolete) to brawl

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2
    • So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
  • * Burke
    • I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please.
  • * 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
    • Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.

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